To make oceans a climate priority, advocates look beyond COP29While a dedicated agreement is unlikely, advocates are pushing for concrete, quantifiable ocean-based climate actions in updated Nationally...
22 Nov, 2024, 09.57 AM IST
Astronomers have detected what may be a ‘future Earth’ eight billion years from nowAstronomers discovered KMT-2020-BLG-0414, a faraway planet orbiting a white dwarf, which offers a glimpse into Earth's potential future in ...
28 Sep, 2024, 12.51 AM IST
Breaking our plastics habit is easier said than doneWe produce some 400 million metric tons of plastics year in, year out. Except for the roughly 9% that’s recycled and 12% that’s incinerated...
20 Sep, 2024, 09.48 AM IST
Subglacial meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers could accelerate retreat, study findsResearchers have found that subglacial discharge, or meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers, could be causing glacier...
28 Oct, 2023, 01.49 PM IST
Meet the oil man in charge of leading the world away from oilEven as investments across the world in solar energy sector have already exceeded those in oil, the UAE is still a major exporter of projec...
15 Sep, 2023, 10.35 AM IST
View: India needs to commit on greenhouse gases at G7India will be the only country at the G7 summit with a nationally determined contribution (NDC) - its official submission to the UN climate...
10 Jun, 2021, 11.26 PM IST
Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030: Here's why that's excitingIn the latest announcement from Nasa's solar system exploration programme, two missions have been given the go-ahead - and they're both bou...
06 Jun, 2021, 11.29 AM IST
NASA gets ready to head to Venus - first time in decades - with two new missionsVenus has lately received less scientific attention than Mars.
03 Jun, 2021, 06.33 PM IST
How long is the solar system's longest day? Venus has the answerThe study also measured the tilt of the Venusian axis and size of the planet's core, allowing for a deeper understanding of an enigmatic wo...
03 May, 2021, 11.02 PM IST
Astronomers see possible hints of life in the clouds of VenusTwo telescopes in Hawaii and Chile spotted in the thick Venutian clouds the chemical signature of phosphine, a noxious gas that on Earth is...
14 Sep, 2020, 08.50 PM IST
Global warming: Time is running outIn the last year, global carbon dioxide emissions had increased by around 36 gigatonnes, and this level had remained roughly steady over th...
16 Nov, 2017, 12.30 AM IST
20 potentially habitable Earth-like planets identifiedThe new research outlines 216 Kepler planets located within the "habitable zone" - the area around a star in which a planet's surface could...
04 Aug, 2016, 12.44 PM IST
What Barack Obama should learn from Angela Merkel's energy revolutionObama still has nuclear plants to back up renewables, yet the US grid is less reliable and older than the German one. An upgrade is urgentl...
06 Aug, 2015, 10.12 AM IST
Is Earth's closest cousin a dying planet?Last week Kepler-452b's discovery was met with resounding excitement. The human race met its very first planet orbiting a star in the habit...
31 Jul, 2015, 12.22 PM IST
- US won’t raise carbon footprint bar
Forget the US President Barak Obama’s statement on climate change upon his re-election stating, "We haven’t done as much as we need to". On...
27 Nov, 2012, 03.08 AM IST
- US against raising carbon footprint bar
Forget the US President Barak Obama’s statement on climate change upon his re-election stating, "We haven’t done as much as we need to".
26 Nov, 2012, 09.55 PM IST
- How Paul Polman plans to turn Unilever into a sustainability champion
Unilever's CEO Paul Polman's sustainable living plan looks to integrate sustainability into the very core of company's business and strateg...
05 Apr, 2011, 01.09 AM IST